Daugavpils Ghetto

The Daugavpils Ghetto was a Jewish ghetto located in the city of Dunaburg (Daugavpils, Latvia), existing from 26 June 1941 to October 1943. Nazi Germany created the ghetto during Operation Barbarossa, when the Axis Powers invaded the Soviet Union and rounded up Jews and communists for extermination. In October 1943, the ghetto was liquidated during the Holocaust, and 16,000 Jews were massacred in the ghetto; only around 100 people survived the massacre.